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Bishakh Som's 'Spellbound' Is an Innovative Take on the Graphic Memoir
Bishakh's Som's graphic memoir, Spellbound, serves as a reminder that trans memoirs need not hinge on transition narratives, or at least not on the ones we are used to seeing.
20 Oct 2020
Music
Gamblers' Michael McManus Discusses Religion, Addiction, and the Importance of Writing Open-Ended Songs
Seductively approachable, Gamblers' sunny sound masks the tragedy and despair that populate the band's debut album.
20 Oct 2020
Books
Peter Guralnick's 'Looking to Get Lost' Is an Ode to the Pleasures of Writing About Music
Peter Guralnick's homage to writing about music, 'Looking to Get Lost', shows how good music writing gets the music into the readers' head.
19 Oct 2020
Film
In Praise of the Artifice in George Cukor's 'Sylvia Scarlett'
George Cukor's gender-bending Sylvia Scarlett proposes a heroine who learns nothing from her cross-gendered ordeal.
19 Oct 2020
Music
The Cure: Ranking the Albums From 13 to 1
Just about every Cure album is worth picking up, and even those ranked lowest boast worthwhile moments. Here are their albums, spanning 29 years, presented from worst to best.
19 Oct 2020
Television
The 20 Best Episodes of 'Star Trek: The Original Series'
This is a timeless list of 20 thrilling Star Trek episodes that delight, excite, and entertain, all the while exploring the deepest aspects of the human condition and questioning our place in the universe.
19 Oct 2020
Music
The 20 Best Tom Petty Songs
With today's release of Tom Petty's Wildflowers & All the Rest (Deluxe Edition), we're revisiting Petty's 20 best songs.
Joshua M. Miller
16 Oct 2020
Music
The 11 Greatest Hits From "Greatest Hits" Compilations
It's one of the strangest pop microcosms in history: singles released exclusively from Greatest Hits compilations. We rounded 'em up and ranked 'em to find out what is truly the greatest Greatest Hit of all.
16 Oct 2020
Music
When Punk Got the Funk
As punks were looking for some potential pathways out of the cul-de-sacs of their limited soundscapes, they saw in funk a way to expand the punk palette without sacrificing either their ethos or idea(l)s.
15 Oct 2020
Music
20 Hits of the '80s You Might Not Have Known Are Covers
There were many hit cover versions in the '80s, some of well-known originals, and some that fans may be surprised are covers.
15 Oct 2020
Music
The Reign of Kindo Discuss Why We're Truly "Better Off Together"
The Reign of Kindo's Joseph Secchiaroli delves deep into their latest single and future plans, as well as how COVID-19 has affected not only the band but America as a whole.
15 Oct 2020
Books
Tommy Siegel's Comic 'I Hope This Helps' Pokes at Social Media Addiction
Jukebox the Ghost's Tommy Siegel discusses his "500 Comics in 500 Days" project, which is now a new book, I Hope This Helps.
14 Oct 2020
Music
Kimm Rogers' "Lie" Is an Unapologetically Political Tune (premiere)
San Diego's Kimm Rogers taps into frustration with truth-masking on "Lie". "What I found most frustrating was that no one would utter the word 'lie'."
14 Oct 2020
Music
50 Years Ago B.B. King's 'Indianola Mississippi Seeds' Retooled R&B
B.B. King's passion for bringing the blues to a wider audience is in full flower on the landmark album, Indianola Mississippi Seeds.
14 Oct 2020
Film
Filmmaker Marlon Riggs Knew That Silence = Death
In turning the camera on himself, even in his most vulnerable moments as a sick and dying man, filmmaker and activist Marlon Riggs demonstrated the futility of divorcing the personal from the political. These films are available now on OVID TV.
13 Oct 2020
Film
The Human Animal in Natural Labitat: A Brief Study of the Outcast
The secluded island trope in films such as Cast Away and television shows such as Lost gives culture a chance to examine and explain the human animal in pristine, lab like, habitat conditions. Here is what we discover about Homo sapiens.
13 Oct 2020
Music
Bad Wires Release a Monster of a Debut with 'Politics of Attraction'
Power trio Bad Wires' debut Politics of Attraction is a mix of punk attitude, 1990s New York City noise, and more than a dollop of metal.
13 Oct 2020
Music
'Waiting Out the Storm' with Jeremy Ivey
On Waiting Out the Storm, Jeremy Ivey apologizes for present society's destruction of the environment and wonders if racism still exists in the future and whether people still get high and have mental health issues.
13 Oct 2020
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